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Two-minute Time Lord

Two-minute Time Lord
Description:
Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC ' s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who. We ' ll try to keep this context in mind as we review episodes, comment on the news of the moment, and otherwise pontificate: Doctor Who is not FOR a thirtysomething podcaster. It ' s for that nine-year-old behind the sofa. But his or her mum and dad have been invited along for the ride, as are those of us who were kids when Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat. And we ' ll keep it to two minutes, because we ' re ALL in a hurry.

Homepage: http://twominutetimelord.com/wp

RSS Feed: http://twominutetimelord.com/wp/?feed=podcast

Two-minute Time Lord Statistics
Episodes:
368
Average Episode Duration:
0:0:07:05
Longest Episode Duration:
0:1:35:17
Total Duration of all Episodes:
1 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 5 seconds
Earliest Episode:
30 April 2010 (2:46am GMT)
Latest Episode:
19 November 2024 (5:15pm GMT)
Average Time Between Episodes:
14 days, 10 hours, 48 minutes and 0 seconds

Two-minute Time Lord Episodes

  • 2MTL 488: Foundation and "Empire"

    19 November 2024 (5:15pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 seconds

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    “Empire of Death” epitomized RTD’s approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?



  • 2MTL 487: What's Next for 2MTL

    12 November 2024 (6:55pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 58 seconds

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    A check-in after November 5, a promise about Empire of Death, and thoughts about the way forward.



  • 2MTL 486: On Follow-through and "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"

    21 June 2024 (10:07pm GMT)
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    In case you missed me on The Incomparable’s Doctor Who Flashcast, here are some last-minute thoughts about TLoRS and where it fell down prior to the season finale.



  • 2MTL 485: Dot, Bubble, and Rogue

    10 June 2024 (12:08am GMT)
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    This is a double edition of 2MTL covering “Dot and Bubble” and “Rogue,” two episodes that were absolutely tonally identical and left you feeling exactly the same way after each of them, amirite?



  • 2MTL 484: 73 Thoughts

    31 May 2024 (4:26pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 27 seconds

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    We’re catching up on the Discourse about a loved and hated mysterious episode. I’m still on Team Love.



  • 2MTL 483: Hijinkx and Vibes

    24 May 2024 (12:48pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 19 seconds

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    Finally, I catch up on “The Devil’s Chord” and hold two opinions at once.



  • 2MTL 482: With "Boom," Steven Moffat Enters His "Midnight" Era

    19 May 2024 (2:14am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 26 seconds

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    “Pace and energy” and high concepts give way to a man with a foot on a landmine for the duration of the story. Tension-filled bottle episodes are rare for Doctor Who, although there are a lot of parallels between this one and 2009’s “Midnight.” How does Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who fit with his showrunner’s current experiment?



  • 2MTL 481: The Space Babies Speedrun

    16 May 2024 (3:30pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 29 seconds

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    “Would you like to see the baby?” Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received “Space Babies,” but the first-or-second episode of new Series 1 had a LOT to cram into a too-small container, and that was an issue as well.



  • 2MTL 480: Doctor Who is Not Science Fiction

    11 May 2024 (2:54am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 42 seconds

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    The first episodes of Series 1 (not counting the Christmas Special) have finally launched, and there’s RTD upon RTD on top of more RTD in “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord.” We’ll look at these episodes individually soon, but going that hard was a gutsy, even necessary choice.



  • 2MTL 479: Solid Gold?

    2 February 2024 (7:54pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 35 seconds

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    In which your interlocutor admits that he wishes to hear less of a composer he loves.

    An old, crude black-and-white image of Murray Gold, internally captioned "Murray Gold has a posse," a la the Shepard Fairey Andre the Giant campaign from decades ago.
    A graphics whiz, Chip was not, when he shared this on social media years ago


  • 2MTL 478: Goblin Corps

    28 December 2023 (4:24am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 7 seconds

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    After “The Church on Ruby Road,” there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do need to address the fact that this is now a show with goblins and flying wooden ships….



  • 2MTL 477: ¿Por qué no los dos?

    9 December 2023 (11:00pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 15 seconds

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    Celebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!



  • 2MTL 476: Evolution of the Doctor

    2 December 2023 (10:21pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 8 seconds

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    How do you make a special episode “special” when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty good answer.



  • 2MTL 475: Brandishing the Gravity Stanchions

    25 November 2023 (9:29pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 51 seconds

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    The furry, big-eyed alien Beep the Meep as seen in "The Star Beast" episode of Doctor Who
    Meep?

    What I wouldn’t have given for the Meep to give an order to “reticulate the splines.” (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)



  • 2MTL 474: Is 14 Greater Than 10?

    20 November 2023 (3:20am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 8 seconds

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    You can’t expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the Tenth. I have my hopes, but the Fourteenth Doc comic in Doctor Who Magazine and even the Children in Need short didn’t offer any clues….



  • The Reset Button

    13 November 2023 (3:44am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 15 seconds

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    The hiatus between Doctors is near an end, and a podcast born out of a love of David Tennant and Russell T Davies comes out of its own hiatus for their return.



  • 2MTL 472: "That is a good look on you, Professor"

    24 October 2022 (3:54am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 24 seconds

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    On great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.



  • 2MTL 471: Long Time Ago When We Was Fam

    22 October 2022 (2:53am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 33 seconds

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    Bringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor…



  • 2MTL 470: Something Old, Something New

    15 May 2022 (7:23pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 53 seconds

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    Is RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week's announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today's announcement of Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and the merits of old mistakes vs. new mistakes.



  • 2MTL 469: TIME DILATION: The Streaming Future of Doctor Who

    1 May 2022 (4:28pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds

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    Jason Snell, co-host of Downstream on Relay FM and head of The Incomparable network of pop culture podcasts, joins me for a look at Doctor Who's future in a world where TV networks struggle to stay relevant and Netflix is losing a bunch of subscribers. The conversation is a "follow-out" from recent discussions on Radio Free Skaro. (Apologies to Jason because I overprocessed his audio.)



  • 2MTL 468: "Legend of the Sea Devils" and Feeling Closer to "Fine"

    24 April 2022 (7:15pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds

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    When you're the sort of person for whom the meaning of "fine" turns from "good enough" to not so much, and maybe you start surrendering to pessimism, even after an honestly revolutionary conversation between Yaz and the Doctor.



  • 2MTL 467: Parsing Age, Rose/Ten and Thasmin

    15 April 2022 (7:48pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 seconds

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    The most tortured podcast episode title I've ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for "Legend of the Sea Devils."



  • 2MTL 466: New Year's Hangover

    15 February 2022 (4:48am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds

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    Thoughts from the heart about a New Year's special that was a small story, coming at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with the last two years–and how I hope to look at Doctor Who anew following a return to Gallifrey One.



  • 2MTL 465: Re: Flux ("The Vanquishers")

    16 December 2021 (3:07am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 8 seconds

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    I'm not entirely sure who "The Vanquishers" applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a little extra time to think about Chapter 6, and Flux as a whole, and why I ultimately think this effort to put eight pounds of plot into a six-pound bag succeeded despite itself.



  • 2MTL 464: Steeling for the Finale ("Survivors of the Flux")

    4 December 2021 (11:21pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 3 seconds

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    Tomorrow's the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.



  • 2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)

    28 November 2021 (2:34am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds

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    Recapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from "Blink"? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.



  • 2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")

    19 November 2021 (5:43am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 48 seconds

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    Space opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall's arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)



  • 2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")

    13 November 2021 (1:59pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 37 seconds

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    In which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.



  • 2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic (The Halloween Apocalypse)

    31 October 2021 (8:41pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 seconds

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    The Doctor and Yaz hanging upside down from the episode's opening

    Now this is a story all about how. My life got flipped turned upside down.

    Big, bold, and entirely un-self-contained, Doctor Who: Flux's first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show's first modern miniseries.



  • 2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return

    30 September 2021 (4:01am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes and 9 seconds

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    Nicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.



  • 2MTL 458: Pregenerating a Showrunner

    25 September 2021 (8:24pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 32 seconds

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    No one saw that coming. Russell T Davies's first era of Doctor Who is my favorite. What are some of the traps to avoid with his upcoming return as showrunner?



  • 2MTL 457: About Noel Clarke

    2 May 2021 (4:07am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 4 seconds

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    From the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women

    You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor.

    In an article for the UK Guardian on April 29, 2021, journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne painstakingly gathered and reported 20 allegations from women of being abused by actor, producer, and one-time Doctor Who recurring cast member Noel Clarke.

    The women stepped forward following the announcement that he would receive an award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema that month from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In breaking their silence, Kale and Osborne write, the women “allege Clarke is a serial abuser of women, using his power in the industry to prey on and harass female colleagues, and sometimes bully those who fall out of favour.” Following the article’s publication, BAFTA suspended the award and Clarke’s membership.

    Any Doctor Who fans who want to venture an opinion about Noel Clarke should read this article first. I’ve linked it on social and it’s in the show notes. The article is damning. You have 20 women, either anonymously for their protection or on the record, sharing their stories of being groped, harassed, and humiliated. A reputable news organization simply does not go there without dotting every I and crossing every T, not when they’d be the likely target of a libel suit.

    I once shared a stage with Clarke, interviewing him at Long Island Who. I would never have picked up on him being predatory. But that’s how patriarchy works, hiding in plain sight. Since then, longstanding stories of other Doctor Who actors’ behavior on set have surfaced. Some of them, I didn’t want to believe. I’d read an account of an actress colleague giving one of them a pass for being a lad, or something like that, and maybe I’d tell myself that they all thought that it was in harmless fun, and when that actor returned in a guest role, I’d put the uncomfortable thought away.

    Easy for me to do, of course. Women, BIPoC people, queer people, they know better than me. They routinely do the work of distinguishing the art from the artist, and judging what to keep and what to throw away, because they don’t have the privilege of living in a world where the worst thing that happens to them when a popular actor is revealed as a predator is that their enjoyment of a TV show is reduced.

    My favorite pop culture properties, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, all have an expressly idealistic point of view. They’re humanistic, pro-freedom. They’re about being freaking kind. And in the last couple of years, there have been far too many examples, within these fandoms and even within these franchises, of people who supposedly identify with these ideals failing to walk the walk.

    I don’t always live up to those ideals myself, but I’m trying to do it today. You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor. And especially, don’t focus on how his actions affect Doctor Who the franchise, or Doctor Who the fandom. That’s centering your own feelings. There are 20 women—at least—who deserve greater consideration. And we have fandom cultures, and convention spaces, and writers’ rooms, and soundstages, where predatory behavior, patriarchy, racism, and anti-queer bias continue to reign. I’m going to try to put better focus on challenging those wrongs—and less on my own comfort.



  • 2MTL 456: Long Time Passing

    2 January 2021 (3:00am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 seconds

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    Ten months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When "Revolution of the Daleks" was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?



  • 2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"

    22 August 2020 (2:42am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 19 seconds

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    "Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?" After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there's no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006's "Fear Her."



  • 2MTL 454: It's Always Time to Engage

    24 June 2020 (12:02pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 34 seconds

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    Why is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who's politics?



  • 2MTL 453: Within Our Confession Dials

    26 May 2020 (12:51am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 16 seconds

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    There's been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks such as Chris Chibnall and Emily Cook. But 2015's "Heaven Sent" seems particularly relevant as well…



  • 2MTL 452: WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 Makes a House Call (Time Dilation)

    26 April 2020 (2:37am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 31 seconds

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    Graeme Burk, co-author with Robert Smith? of WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2, stops by to talk about slow-cooker episode criticism in a time of lightning-fast hot takes (not that I'm familiar with that at all) and staying connected with Doctor Who in a stay-at-home world.



  • 2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited

    2 March 2020 (3:29am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 14 seconds

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    Suddenly, there's much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new "retcon" to the Doctor's past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that's gone before on television. Let's talk about a challenge to The Master–and to Doctor Who fans themselves.



  • 2MTL 450: Point of No Return

    24 February 2020 (2:23am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 29 seconds

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    Execution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?



  • 2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"

    22 February 2020 (11:11pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 0 seconds

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    On emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.



  • 2MTL 448: The Most Important Story

    15 February 2020 (2:25am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 48 seconds

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    Sometimes, the plot isn't the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.



  • 2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors

    8 February 2020 (3:31am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 seconds

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    A mostly solid story by McTighe and Chibnall, but I'm REALLY here for a Doctor-ish Yaz and a Doctor-ish Ryan.



  • 2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature

    27 January 2020 (3:57am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 seconds

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    That sound you heard was a podcaster's brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from "Fugitive of the Judoon" into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.



  • 2MTL 445: A Two-fisted Tale of Tesla

    20 January 2020 (5:19am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 seconds

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    Would you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that's just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio)



  • 2MTL 444: Percolating on "Orphan 55"

    19 January 2020 (3:20am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 1 second

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    It took longer than two minutes to explain–heck, longer than six days to figure out–why "Orphan 55" confounded me.



  • 2MTL 443: Looking Backward Too Soon

    6 January 2020 (4:07am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 27 seconds

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    "Spyfall Part Two" was a strong conclusion to the opening Series 12 two-parter, but there was one creative decision I'm wary of, and another that really should have been done differently.



  • 2MTL 442: Three Questions About "Spyfall"

    2 January 2020 (2:58am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 23 seconds

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    Chris Chibnall and company knocked the first episode of Series 12 out of the park but there's a caution: where there is a Part One, there must always be a Part Two. Here are three things to look for in the conclusion of "Spyfall" on January 5.

    Sacha Dhawan in "Spyfall"

    Sacha Dhawan as You-Know-Who



  • 2MTL 441: Advent

    24 December 2019 (6:51pm GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 35 seconds

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    Celebrating the impending advent of Series 12, and also the best fandom advent calendar ever: Radio Free Skaro's Fluid Links on YouTube.



  • 2MTL 440: Annualized

    12 November 2019 (3:11am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 40 seconds

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    Behold, The Dr Who Annual 1977 in all its bonkers glory.



  • 2MTL 439: Throwback Review of "Love and Monsters"

    21 October 2019 (1:03am GMT)
    Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 3 seconds

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    There's not a lot of distance between covering ELO songs with a band of Tenth Doctor investigators, and enjoying Doctor Who fandom culture. You just have to watch out for the Abzorbaloffs in both places.

    Check out Reality Bomb Live in New York for 2019, occasionally invaded by me.



 
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